Monthly Archive: December 2013

I can’t speak to the origins of “Out Alive,” a new song from Arliss Nancy, but it certainly sounds like an outtake from their Best of 2013 release Wild American Runners. “Out Alive” is from a split 7″ single the…Read more

Happy New Year’s Eve! If you aren’t planning on going out tonight you can still enjoy live music thanks to the Drive-By Truckers. Hood, Cooley and company will release their latest album, English Oceans, on 4 March 2014. The band…Read more

As camp as Adam West’s Batman and as musically crisp as Steely Dan, The 1957 Tail-Fin Fiasco, the UK cult band-in-their-own-minds, roll along with their latest offering, the four-song EP, Cruise Control. Sarcastic to the hilt, The 1957 Tail-Fin Fiasco…Read more

The Pennsylvania borough of Phoenixville is a small, artistic enclave outside of Philadelphia that is not lacking for music. You have the requisite weekend cover bands, singer/songwriter types and aging troubadours who play the bars, coffee shop, theatre and open…Read more

Like a misplaced Christmas gift hidden well behind the tree emerges “Sister Mary,” a new single from The Yawpers, a three-piece from Boulder, Colorado. Having released their debut LP, Capon Crusade, in October 2012, the band is due for a…Read more

Celebrate Christmas Eve with the Buffalo Killers as they take on Chuck Berry’s “Run Run, Rudolph” and “Christmas Time (Is Here Again)” by The Beatles. Download the songs below and enjoy yourself a merry little Christmas. >> “Run Run, Rudolph”…Read more

From My Morning Jacket‘s 2011 Christmas iTunes Session comes “When the Bells Start Ringing.” Featuring The Head and the Heart, “When the Bells Start Ringing” is one of two songs the band plays with MMJ on the seven-song EP. Download…Read more

Once upon a time Ryan Adams seemingly shat out record after record each year. Let’s go back a decade when Adams released Rock N Roll and the Love is Hell duo and listen to his Christmas original, “Hey Parker, It’s…Read more

Check out Wye Oak cover the Brenda Lee holiday classic, “Christmas Will Be Just Another Lonely Day.” Quiet on the recorded music front since their 2011 release, Civilian, the Baltimore duo recently announced plans for a new release in 2014. Download…Read more

Unlike the glut of holiday compilations, overpriced box sets and repackaged deluxe editions, Four Chords and a Lie, the first solo album from Mark Utley (Magnolia Mountain), received a late-year push from This Is American Music. This follows Utley’s recent…Read more